Ishar's 2.5G Nano- "The Meadow"

[emmanuelchavez]

Haha, sounds to me like you purposely sabotaged your 20g in fear of losing to me.
That makes me afraid of touching my tank later tonight when I try to pretty it up for POTM.

[ishar]

Originally Posted by PerenGee

looks like a good start! as with all planted nano's, a good carpet of dwarf baby tears would be awesome. But it depends on what kind of a look you're going for. I'm interested to see this one evolve....

Well P.G., I took your advice . I found 3" sq of HC for about $10 on ebay so I just grabbed it. I will grow it emersed along with the hairgrass and see how it goes

Originally Posted by emmanuelchavez

Haha, sounds to me like you purposely sabotaged your 20g in fear of losing to me.
That makes me afraid of touching my tank later tonight when I try to pretty it up for POTM.

haha yeah, I definitely purposely sabotaged it lol. It is ok though- Orlando helped me out on another forum and taught me how to correctly trim stem plants- just you wait Emmanuel- next time you see a pic of my tank she'll be a beaut!! haha

[ishar]

No pic, but I have something to update. The hairgrass is slowly but surely starting to send out some runners, and is looking good. The crypt is pretty much static in terms of growth. And my wood has white mold on it- nothing some hydrogen peroxide can't fix I am sure

[emmanuelchavez]

Hooray for the new growth!

[ishar]

Well it has been a while, but I took pictures a week and a half ago (roughly) but haven't posted them yet. I bought glosso for the tank since I cannot seem to get my hands on any HC, and am actually in the middle of planting it right now. I will take pics when done and post them and the others.

Also, I am finding a bit of algae scum on the substrate, and since I am planning on flooding the tank tonight unless I research that this is a bad idea, I will have to do many many water changes to make sure this stuff is gone.

[ishar]

Sorry for the delay- my card reader was not working so I couldn't get the pics off the camera for a while. Here they are I would have edited them a bit to fix the colours and whatnot but I am almost late for work as it is :P

May 8, 2009 (I didn't take many shots and they were all like this one)


May 26, 2009- Added glosso and flooded last night, got CO2 working and tonight I will plant some more glosso in there where I can.

CO2!!




Almost full tank shot

[ishar]

I came home to find the tank looking quite dark- so I think I am going to go to walmart or something tomorrow, and get a desk lamp or two that use normal bulbs, and get some of those spiral bulbs of 6700K or whatever I can find. That should brighten it up.

[ishar]

Here is a teaser update of the tank as of today. I have more pics, and I have pics from the 20th but I will post them later.



I doubled the light and started dosing lightly. There is some algae but nothing visible. I have many pond snails though- oh well. The glosso is appreciating the ilght for sure and is starting to grow horizintally.

I have check valves and diffusers coming in the mail right now, so I will be able to hook up some CO2 to this puppy and really watch it go.

[Lotus]

It looks like you've got some good growth going on there!

[unwritten law]

looks pretty awesome... I can see plenty of snails but I wouldn't worry about them too much... they add some life to it......